At 14:36 4-9-2002 -0400, dbarber@psygenomics.com wrote: >Is there a way mark the bad blocks on the hard drive while mkfs'ing the >drive? Or another tool to mark bad blocks on a live filesystem? Just >curious. Nope. XFS automatiically bails out on a IO error and umounts the filesystem to prevent further damage. Cheers -- Seth It might just be your lucky day, if you only knew.